PULLER, SAMUEL D.

Lieut. Col. Samuel D. Puller, 38, a Marine, has been killed [July 27, 1944] in the South Pacific, his wife, Mrs. Mildred Puller, who lives at 182 Midway Avenue, Lansdowne, has been notified.

Colonel Puller, who has a brother, Lewis, also a colonel in the Marines, was graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and St. John’s Academy in Annapolis. He went overseas in 1942.